The Nieman Foundation is withdrawing its role as a partner in a program to help inform Chinese officials about the needs of a free press covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, in cooperation with the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard and the Harvard University Asia Center, will sponsor an educational program for senior Chinese officials working with foreign media during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Read more
The 2005 Class of Nieman Fellows has selected Shahla Sherkat, founder and publisher of the Iranian women's magazine Zanan, to receive the 2005 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Read more
"Last Chance High," a series by The Star-Ledger of Newark about an alternative school for teenagers with serious behavioral problems, has received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Read more
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, is the 24th Joe Alex Morris Jr. Memorial Lecturer at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Read more
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has announced the formation of a Board of Advisors that will provide counsel and support to the foundation. Read more
NiemanWatchdog.org is soliciting incisive, probing questions that President Bush and Senator Kerry should be asked at the upcoming presidential debates. Read more